Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.

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Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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London :: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare,
1685.
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Law -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2024.

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Common Pleas.

COmmon Pleas est le Court le Roy jam̄es tenus en le Sale de Westminster, mes en ancient tēps moveable, si∣cōe appiert {per} Mag. Char. c. 11.

Mes Gwyn, en le Preface a son Lecture, dit, Que jesque le temps que Henry le tierce grant le Grand Charter, la fuer̄ forsq̄ deux Courts sole∣m̄t appel les Courts le Roy, de que ū fuit l'Eschequer, & l'auter le Banke le Roy, quel fuit appel auxly Aula Regia, p̄ ceo que el ensue le Court; & q̄ sur le grant de cel Chart' le Court 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Common Pl es fuit e∣rect & settle ē un lieu certain viz. al Weminster; & p̄ ceo touts les Briefs fueront faits ove cest Returne, Quod sit coram Justificariis meis apud Westmonasterium, ou devant le party fuit commaund per eux de appearer coram Me vel Justiciariis meis, sans ascun addition de ascun lieu certein.

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Touts Civil causes, cybien Real come Personal, sont, ou fueront ē ancient temps, trye en cest Court, accordant al strict Ley del Royalm̄: Et {per} Fortescue, cap. 50. il semble daver este le sole Court pur Real Causes. Le primer Judge de ceo est appelle Seigniour Chiefe Justice del Common Plees, accompany ove trols ou quater Assistants u As∣sociates, que sont create per Letters Patents del Roy, & si∣come fuit enstalle ou place sur le ank {per} le Seigniour Chan∣cellor & Seigniour Chiefe Justice del Court, come ap∣piert {per} Fortescue ca. 51. que expresse touts les cir∣cumstances de cel Admis∣sion.

Le residue des Officers ap∣pertinant a cel Court sont ceux; Le Custos Brevium, trois Prothonotaries, Chiro∣grapher, dixe quater Phila∣sers, quater Exigenters, Clerk des Garrants, Clerk des Ju∣ries, Clerk del Treasury, Clerk de Argent le Roy, Clerk des Essoines, Clerk des Utlagaries.

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